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  <h1>Working With Perspectives</h1>
  <p>Perspectives define the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window. They provide a set of
  functionality aimed at accomplishing a specific type of task or working with specific types of resources.</p>
  <p>See the Related tasks links for more details.</p>
  <h3 class="related">Related Concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-4.htm">Perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="../concepts/concepts-5.htm">Views</a><br>
  <a href="../concepts/concepts-21a.htm">Detached views</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related Tasks</h3><a href="tasks-28.htm">Switching between perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-31.htm">Specifying the default perspective</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9f.htm">Opening perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-24.htm">Changing where perspectives open</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9n.htm">Showing and hiding menu items and toolbar buttons</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9m.htm">Configuring perspective command groups</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9k.htm">Configuring perspective shortcuts</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9i.htm">Saving a user defined perspective</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9d.htm">Deleting a user defined perspective</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9j.htm">Resetting perspectives</a>
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